Star Wars: The Last Jedi
Star Wars: The Last Jedi

The 18 best films of 2017

We round up the best and most memorable movies that have graced our silver screens this year
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From Hollywood remakes to highly anticipated sequels, and a slew of superhero flicks (yes, we're counting The Lego Batman Movie as a superhero film) – here are our picks of the films that we fell in love with, made us cry and laugh to in the theatres this year.

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Coco
Film

Coco

  • 4 out of 5 stars
After a few iffy efforts – at least by its own lofty standards – Pixar follows the marvelously mind-bending 'Inside Out' with a Mexico-set...
Star Wars: The Last Jedi
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Star Wars: The Last Jedi

  • 5 out of 5 stars
Rolling up with the kind of intergalactic swagger that gives us a cosmically infuriating phone prank within the first five minutes, ‘Star Wars: The Last Jedi’...
Paddington 2
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Paddington 2

  • 5 out of 5 stars
However cynical a pose you try to maintain, Paddington Bear will find the chinks in your armour. Voiced with perfect innocence by Ben Whishaw and gorgeously...
Baby Driver
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Baby Driver

  • 4 out of 5 stars
Music sounds better when you’re on the road. In ‘Baby Driver’, ‘Shaun of the Dead’ director Edgar Wright takes the car-chase action film – loaded with tyre...
Thor: Ragnarok
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Thor: Ragnarok

  • 4 out of 5 stars
If you’ve been waiting for a superhero movie with the line, ‘Guys, we’re coming up on The Devil’s Anus’, we have very good news: Marvel’s ‘Thor: Ragnarok’ is...
Dunkirk
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Dunkirk

  • 4 out of 5 stars
You might already know how the evacuation of Dunkirk in May 1940 turned out: how over 300,000 mainly British troops escaped from the beach and harbour of a...
Logan
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Logan

  • 4 out of 5 stars
America lies on the brink of ruin in this bleak and bruising comic-book road movie. It’s 2029 and Logan aka James Howlett aka The Wolverine (Hugh...
War for the Planet of the Apes
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War for the Planet of the Apes

  • 4 out of 5 stars
An evolution of the tech-heavy Hollywood blockbuster, the ‘Planet of the Apes’ franchise is a Darwinian dream come true. These movies have...
Spider-Man: Homecoming
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Spider-Man: Homecoming

  • 4 out of 5 stars
‘Couldn’t you just be a friendly, neighbourhood Spider-Man?’ asks Tony Stark (Robert Downey Jr) of his 15-year-old webslinging protegé Peter Parker (Tom...
Beauty and the Beast
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Beauty and the Beast

  • 4 out of 5 stars
The virtue of courage is high up on the list of Disney princess must-haves (just below kindness, beauty and a strapping prince in tight trousers). And three...